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CLASSICAL NOTES
Wednesday, Oct. 17, at Meadow Brook
THE SMALL SCREEN
Theatre
in Rochester Hills. Costume
Direct from Russia, the renowned St.
designer Edith Leavis Bookstein dresses the
Out on video, with Yiddish subtitles available on
Petersburg String Quartet performs works
colorful characters. $17-$38. Call for show
the
DVD version, The Life and Times of Hank
by Glazunov, Shostokovich and Tchaikovsky
times. (248) 377-3300.
Greenberg
will be released Tuesday, Oct. 16.
for the Cranbrook Music Guild Chamber
Ken Ludwig's Moon Over Buffalo, a
The Discovery Kids Channel's broadcasts of
Series 8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 16, at Christ
comedy of slamming doors and mistaken
Outward Bound, featured in last week's Jewish
Church Cranbrook. $25/$15 students;
identity,
will
be
presented
8
p.m.
Fridays
News,
have been delayed until fall 2002.
includes afterglow. (810) 751-2435.
and Saturdays, Oct. 19-Nov. 3, at
Rosedale Community Players' Upstage
GAIL ZIMMERMAN
Arts & Entertainment
Theatre, 21728 Grand River, east of
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Editor
Lahser, in Detroit. Sunday matinee: 2
Cinderella visits Youtheatre at the Millennium
"Over the Rainbow," a musical tribute
p.m. Oct. 28. Cabaret seating, $11. (313)
Theatre in Southfield 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Saturday
to lyricist Yip Harburg, will be performed by pianist
537-7716 or (313) 532-4010.
and 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 13-14. $8 advance/$10
William Bolcom, mezzo-soprano Joan Morris and
Wayne State's Studio Theatre features two short
door.
(248) 557-7529.
cabaret artist and pianist Max Morath 7 and 9 p.m.
plays, Terrance McNally's Sweet Eros and Stephen
Youtheatre
at the Millennium Theatre in
Saturday, Oct. 13, at the Kerrytown Concert House,
Belber's Tape, 8 p.m. Thursdays-Sundays, Oct. 18-
Southfield
presents
the one-woman multimedia
Ann Arbor. $15-$30. (734) 769-2999.
27. $6-$8. Call for show times, (313) 577-2972.
show
Through
the
Eyes
of a Friend: Sharing the
Pop icon Elton John plays Detroit's Joe Louis
The Hilberry Theatre at Wayne State opens Henrik
World of Anne Frank 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 18, for
Arena 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 13. $47.50-$87.50.
Ibsen's A Doll's House 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 19. Runs in
families with children 10 and older. $8 advance/$10
(248) 645-6666.
repertory through Dec. 15. $12-$20. (313) 577-2972.
door. (248) 557-7529.
Actress Mare Winningham might look familiar
The 1940s come alive in writer-director Rick
from movies like St. Elmo's Fire, but her appearance 8
Sperling's musical 2001 Hastings St., about com-
p.m. Saturday, Oct. 13, at the Ark in Ann Arbor will
ing of age in Detroit's "Black Bottom" neighbor-
THE ART SCENE
be as a singer-songwriter. $17.50. (248) 761-1800.
hood, performed by the Mosaic Youth Theatre of
Meadow Brook Art Gallery at Oakland
"United in Swing" is the musical theme of Wynton
Detroit, 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 3 p.m.
University's Wilson Hall features A Moment of
Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra,
Sunday, Oct. 19-21, at Detroit's Orchestra Hall.
Grace: A Retrospective of Ed Fraga Paintings,
appearing at Hill Auditorium in Ann Arbor 4 p.m.
$7-$50. (313) 576-5111.
1981-2001 through Nov. 11. Hope Palmer speaks
Sunday, Oct. 14. $20-$45. (734) 764-2538.
Native American musician and storyteller Robert
on "The Importance of Art
Mirabal combines his culture with rock 'n' roll in re-
Patronage"
at 5 p.m.
DANCE FEVER
creating his PBS television concert special, Music from
Tuesday, Oct. 16, and Ed
The gravity-defying leaps and
a Painted Cave, 7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 14, at the Power
Fraga gives a gallery talk 5
lifts
of Pilobolus dance company
Center in Ann Arbor. $22.50/$20. (248) 645-6666.
p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 23. No
comes to the Music Hall in
Tori Amos performs solo at Detroit's Fox Theatre,
charge. (248) 370-3005.
Detroit 8 p.m. Friday and
on her Stange Little Girls CD tour, 7:30 p.m.
The Community House
Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct.
Thursday, Oct. 18. Singer-songwriter Rufus
in Birmingham hosts Our
19-21. $20-$40. (313) 963-2366.
Wainwright opens. $36.50/$29.50. (248) 433-1515.
Town 2001 Art Exhibition
Jazz flutist Alexander Zonjic heads up a benefit
and Sale, featuring more
than 250 artists from
for the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund 8
LAUGH LINES
p.m. Thursday, Oct. 18, at the State Theatre in
Michigan, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Detroit. Grammy winner Bob James, along with
Thursday-Saturday and 10
Richard Jeni headlines Comedy
Deborah Goldbe rg's "Malabar" with
Kirk Whalum, Jeff Lorber, Ken Navarro and
a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday, Oct.
Night 2001, to provide hunger relief
blue oil on enam el, at the Community
Zonjic's band, join in. $30-$75. (248) 245-6666.
18-21.
(248) 644-5832.
through Forgotten Harvest, 8 p.m.
Houses. "Our To wn" in Birmingham.
The hard-swinging Roomful of Blues presents its
Saturday, Oct. 20, at the Millennium
blend of swing, jazz and urban blues called "jump
Centre in Southfield. $35/$100 with
blues" Thursday, Oct. 18, at Ferndale's Magic Bag.
WHATNOT
strolling dinner. (248) 350-3663.
Doors at 8 p.m. $15. (248) 544-3030.
Hamtramck's Planet Ant Theatre presents an
Caldecott Award winning children's book illustra-
tor David Small will sign So You Want to Be
Original Comedy Show, directed by Shawn
Handlon, Oct. 18-31. $10-$15. Call for show
President? 1-3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 13, at Book Beat
ON THE STAGE
times. (313) 365-4948.
in Oak Park. (248) 968-1190.
The Detroit Zoo presents Arctic Fusion, a fund-
Southfield's SRO Productions and the Senior Arts
raiser held in the new underground Polar Passage, 8
League present Jeff Baron's drama Visiting Mr. Green
p.m. Saturday, Oct. 13. $20-$25. (248) 541-5717.
8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays
THE BIG SCREEN
New Age authors George Anderson and Andrew
through Oct. 28 at the Burgh Historical Park, Civic
The Detroit Science Center's IMAX Dome Theatre
Barone will speak on Walking in the Garden of
Center and Berg. $8-$10. (248) 827-0710.
is currently swarming with Dolphins. Call for screen-
Souls at Barnes & Noble in West Bloomfield 7:30
Agatha Christie's mystery Murder on the Nile opens
ing times. (313) 577-8400.
p.m. Friday, Oct. 19. (248) 626-6804.
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